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Baseball Baseball Is A

Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams that alternate between batting and fielding, with the aim of scoring runs by advancing around four bases. The game consists of nine innings, and the team with the most runs at the end wins, with extra innings played in case of a tie. Originating from older games in England, baseball became the national sport of the United States by the late 19th century and is now popular in various regions including North America and East Asia.

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Baseball Baseball Is A

Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams that alternate between batting and fielding, with the aim of scoring runs by advancing around four bases. The game consists of nine innings, and the team with the most runs at the end wins, with extra innings played in case of a tie. Originating from older games in England, baseball became the national sport of the United States by the late 19th century and is now popular in various regions including North America and East Asia.

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Baseball 

Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams who take turns batting and
fielding. The game proceeds when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball
which a player on the batting team tries to hit with a bat. The objective of the offensive team (batting
team) is to hit the ball into the field of play, allowing its players to run the bases, having them
advance counter-clockwise around four bases to score what are called "runs". The objective of the
defensive team (fielding team) is to prevent batters from becoming runners, and to prevent
runners' advance around the bases.[2] A run is scored when a runner legally advances around the
bases in order and touches home plate (the place where the player started as a batter). The team
that scores the most runs by the end of the game is the winner.
The first objective of the batting team is to have a player reach first base safely. A player on the
batting team who reaches first base without being called "out" can attempt to advance to subsequent
bases as a runner, either immediately or during teammates' turns batting. The fielding team tries to
prevent runs by getting batters or runners "out", which forces them out of the field of play. Both the
pitcher and fielders have methods of getting the batting team's players out. The opposing teams
switch back and forth between batting and fielding; the batting team's turn to bat is over once the
fielding team records three outs. One turn batting for each team constitutes an inning. A game is
usually composed of nine innings, and the team with the greater number of runs at the end of the
game wins. If scores are tied at the end of nine innings, extra innings are usually played. Baseball
has no game clock, although most games end in the ninth inning.
Baseball evolved from older bat-and-ball games already being played in England by the mid-18th
century. This game was brought by immigrants to North America, where the modern version
developed. By the late 19th century, baseball was widely recognized as the national sport of
the United States. Baseball is popular in North America and parts of Central and South America,
the Caribbean, and East Asia, particularly in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
In the United States and Canada, professional Major League Baseball (MLB) teams are divided into
the National League (NL) and American League (AL), each with three divisions: East, West, and
Central. The MLB champion is determined by playoffs that culminate in the World Series. The top
level of play is similarly split in Japan between the Central and Pacific Leagues and in Cuba between
the West League and East League. The World Baseball Classic, organized by the World Baseball
Softball Confederation, is the major international competition of the sport and attracts the top
national teams from around the world.

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